Braindead Megaphone is a wonderful collection of essays, containing everything from an exploration of the insane cultural edifice that is modern-day Dubai to a condemnation of the infuriating state of contemporary media (and the consequently dumbed-down mediators who participate in it every day). It also includes the best critical essay I have ever read on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is worth the price of admission alone. Always funny, always insightful, Saunders's scope might be scattershot, but his aim is always dead-on.